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50-year-old female patient from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), pneumonia and respiratory failure, transferred to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City.
Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Director of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, on the morning of 11/5 said that “patient 278” has a lot of cough, high fever, pulse and blood pressure. The samples took nCOV-positive nasopharyngeal samples.
“The patient breathes nasal oxygen, continues to take antibiotics,” said Dr. Chau. Previously, the patient’s situation turned bad, the Bac Lieu hospital, consulted by the Department of Medical Services, Ministry of Health, was approved to be transferred to Ho Chi Minh City due to better treatment conditions.
This is one of 17 patients registered on 7/5. They shared a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Bac Lieu on May 3, the isolation was immediately concentrated.
The remaining 16 patients are still being treated at the Bac Lieu General Hospital.
Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Disease Hospital is treating Covid-19’s heaviest patient, the 43-year-old British pilot. For more than a month, the patient has had to undergo ECMO, coagulopathy, coagulopathy, and “cytokine storm” syndrome, an overactive immune system. The Ministry of Health has considered a lung transplant option for the patient, but the situation remains critical and depends on the lungs of the appropriate donor, so it is not possible to carry out the transplant. The patient is expected to be transferred to Cho Ray Hospital for further treatment.
The special isolation area treats patients with Covid-19 at the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Photos: Huu Khoa
On the morning of 11/5, the Ministry of Health did not record the positive case of nCoV, marking the 25th day of non-communicable infection in the community.
A total of 288 infections, of which 241 were cured. 47 patients are being treated, most of their health is stable, of which 6 cases are negative once, 14 cases are negative twice or more.
